Meetings/20180908

Casey Dunn and Peggy Wargo (SSEO ) joined Jeneen Sommers at the La Honda Fire Department as part of the County Wide 'Yellow Command' exercise.

Jeneen walked us through how to open the fire station as an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) and to set up in a corner of the common room set aside for radio communications.

General Points:

• bring your laptop, your hand held Ham HT/WalkieTalkie thing( as many as you can, for monitoring various chanels ) and headsets for your phone and your radio ( it gets super noisy in that room as the different teams start rolling in )
• break out the donated single-band radio from the waterproof case under the reserved desk. Fire it up and start looking for radio traffic via CMD31 then the Sherrifs on CTL35 and finally the VTACs ( tactical channels, if you can hear them. )
  • set up a CommNet, ask for check-ins by region/hamlet/township, log check-ins
• set up the FEMA designated documents ( standard as from CERT TRAINING )
  • she's going to cook up some blank FEMA Communications Plan documents with the common radio repeaters used coastside
• use white board to start a map of the incident
• Phone is to be answered. THERE IS A SCRIPT SOMEWHERE! JUST TAKE INFO!